Tuesday, January 29, 2013

Rose cake

Made this rose cake - my first ever -for our daughter's fourth birthday party last Saturday. I had come across these rose cakes on Pinterest on several occasion (see here or here) and really wanted to make one myself. I found piping the roses surprisingly easy and will happily undertake the process again.

A simple sponge cake (using 4 eggs), layered with lingonberry and apple jam as well as lemon-flavoured curd cheese cream, and topped with cranberry zefir (basically a type of Italian meringue; 3 egg whites and 300 g sugar is enough to frost the 26 cm cake).

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Pille; If you don't mind, I just have to share my rosecake that I made for my daughter's second birthday a few weeks ago...http://kaikkiaitinireseptit.blogspot.fi/2013/01/roosa-ruusukakku-ruusunnupulleni.html

Anon. - zefir is a type of Italian meringue that's popular over here, but it's uncooked. Instead on simple sugar syrup, you use something flavoured - either lemon juice or water with lemon acid, or cranberry juice, to make the syrup. A cranberry juice flavoured zefir is cranberry zefir :)